Will Davis voted Yea (Passage) on this Legislation.
Title: Repeals the Death Penalty for First Degree Murder
Signed by Governor JB Pritzker
Title: Repeals the Death Penalty for First Degree Murder
Vote to pass a bill that repeals the death penalty for first degree murder sentences.
Defines felony to mean a violation of a penal statute of this or any other state or the United States for which a sentence to a term of imprisonment for one year or more is provided or in which the death penalty may be imposed in another state (Sec. 10)
Repeals all language referring to the death penalty for first degree murder (Sec. 20).
Authorizes a defendant who at the time of commision of the offense was 18 or older and has been found guilty of first degree murder to be sentenced to a term of natural life imprisonment (Sec. 5-8-1).
Title: Repeals the Death Penalty for First Degree Murder
Vote to pass a bill that repeals the death penalty for first degree murder sentences.
Defines felony to mean a violation of a penal statute of this or any other state or the United States for which a sentence to a term of imprisonment for one year or more is provided or in which the death penalty may be imposed in another state (Sec. 10)
Repeals all language referring to the death penalty for first degree murder (Sec. 20).
Authorizes a defendant who at the time of commision of the offense was 18 or older and has been found guilty of first degree murder to be sentenced to a term of natural life imprisonment (Sec. 5-8-1).
Title: Repeals the Death Penalty for First Degree Murder